Collection · since 1996

Home Computing

Software for the eight- and sixteen-bit computers that first put a computer in the house.

Word processors, paint programs, music tools, utilities and programming languages for the home computers of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, many of them sold by mail order or typed in from magazine listings.

Most of this software ran from cassette or floppy disk, and most of those carriers are now at or beyond the end of their lives.

Records online
643
Made between
1977–2002
Collecting since
1996
  • 288 bit-exact
  • 159 complete
  • 46 reconstructed
  • 121 partial
  • 29 fragmentary